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2019 Creative & Marketing Salary Guide

Get The Creative Group 2019 Salary Guide for all the in-depth salary data you need to help you make the best hiring and career decisions, including starting salary figures for 85 positions in Canada and the U.S. and insights into the latest hiring trends.

What the job’s worth

We present salary ranges in percentiles so you can see how factors such as experience, skill set and market demand affect compensation. With the guide, you can also customize salaries across Canada.

What it takes to land top talent

The guide tells you what skills employers must pay a premium for. You’ll also find insight into the benefits, perks and incentives companies offer most frequently, as well as those that job seekers actually want.

What’s impacting hiring and compensation

Our staffing experts place professionals in creative and marketing jobs every day. We’ve captured their deep knowledge of the hiring and compensation trends in the Salary Guide so you can fine-tune your recruitment efforts.

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We present salary ranges in percentiles so you can see how factors such as experience, skill set and market demand affect compensation. With the guide, you can also customize salaries across Canada.

What it takes to land top talent

The guide tells you what skills employers must pay a premium for. You’ll also find insight into the benefits, perks and incentives companies offer most frequently, as well as those that job seekers actually want.

What’s impacting hiring and compensation

Our staffing experts place professionals in creative and marketing jobs every day. We’ve captured their deep knowledge of the hiring and compensation trends in the Salary Guide so you can fine-tune your recruitment efforts.

Salary Calculator

Don’t go into salary negotiations blind. Use the Salary Calculator to determine current Canadian wages for creative and marketing positions based on your location and other key factors.

Creative and marketing jobs to watch

Technology continues to transform just about every business on the planet, with creative and marketing roles evolving at a particularly rapid clip. Some of the hottest roles in today’s digitally driven creative industry include:

Project manager — Plans, oversees and documents all aspects of a project to make sure it’s completed on time and within scope/budget, while facilitating the flow of communications and assets among internal and external teams.

Social media manager — Develops, implements, tracks and analyzes strategies across social media platforms to build brand awareness, generate traffic and encourage product or service adoption.

User experience(UX) designer — Determines how a website or app feels to a user, ensuring their journey is a great experience while supporting a company’s objectives.

User interface (UI) designer — Determines how a website looks to a user, creating the code and design that meets usability and accessibility standards while enabling users to accomplish their goals quickly.

In-demand creative and marketing skills

Among North American creative and marketing managers surveyed by The Creative Group, 71 per cent said it’s challenging to find job candidates with up-to-date digital skills. Companies are looking for a pipeline of multi-skilled — and, most important, adaptive — creative professionals to make sure the latest tools and technologies they’re investing in are delivering the biggest bang for the buck.